Writing and APA Format

Writing takes a lot of research and work. With having the right resourses available to you through the Kaplan library and the web makes the research a whole lot easier. Even though it is very time consuming, it will be worth it when we are finish and in our chosen field in the medical profession. As we go through the writing course we will be learning different techniques with the writing process. With learning the proper ways to make an outline of the topics, then when you have the topics you can brainstorm your ideas to small little sentences or just ideas you may want to right about. You may not use all your ideas but at least you have them if you need them. Then we will get to fill everything in as we expand the sentences into paragraphs then into pages. Then when the paper is done we need to give credit were credit is due. By this I mean if you paraphrased or quoted something from someone else, you need to let them get the credit. This is were APA format comes in play. As we continue in the journey of academic writing we will be using this on a regular basis. APA format looks scary, but I feel the more you use it the easier it will be. Nobody has to be perfect in the APA format because we have our peers and professor to help and if we can not get help from them we can go to the writing center.
Also we have our handbook with great examples of all types. The handbook is a great tool for all.
If the handbook is readily available it will be used more than once.